Internal email: Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division; key exec Qi Lu leaving after bike injury

Microsoft says it has formed a new 5,000-person engineering and research team to focus on its artificial intelligence products — a major reshaping of the company’s internal structure reminiscent of its massive pivot to pursue the opportunity of the Internet in the mid-1990s. “We are on the cusp of a paradigm shift in computing that is unlike anything we have seen in decades,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in an internal email to employees this morning, the text of which was obtained by GeekWire.
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